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Recent Examples of forthwith Substitute any other nation and she’d be canceled forthwith. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025 The first wave of airborne attacks will be launched forthwith. Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025 Whichever designer first slid that paint job across a boardroom table should be banished forthwith to work on the Sonigenic SHS-series Yamaha Keytar, where there's no chance this dangerously inept individual could make the product look any worse. New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2024 Accordingly, the Special Master and cartographer are DIRECTED to commence work forthwith on a remedial map. Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 5 Sep. 2023 Garland, Weiss, Wolf, and everyone connected to this growing scandal owe the nation answers, forthwith. The Editors, National Review, 23 June 2023 It is therefore ordered that the Arizona Department of Corrections, Reentry and Rehabilitation release (him) forthwith. Elena Santa Cruz, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023 DeSantis, a potential presidential candidate who studied history at Yale, characterizes American universities as liberal indoctrination centers ruled by faculty whose political correctness needs to be canceled, forthwith. Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2023 On September 21st the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, declared that the model of railway privatisation that Britain has followed for the past two and a half decades had stopped working, and would end forthwith. The Economist, 26 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for forthwith
Adverb
  • Flood damage may not be immediately apparent and can cause problems that develop over time.
    Rick Barrett, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Restaurants with more than 30 demerits are required to fix the worst problems immediately and remedy the rest within 48 hours.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • On the second play, Stidham rolled out and found Engram on a drag — and the free-agent tight end promptly went galloping down the right sideline for 58 yards.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Last Tuesday, reliever Brock Stewart, their lone bullpen acquisition at the trade deadline, recorded a hold with one scoreless inning against the Blue Jays and promptly went on the IL with shoulder inflammation.
    Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • When the bride saw her brother standing there, Allison instantly broke down in tears, overcome by the joy of being with him again.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Like us, her Instagram followers were instantly in love, flooding her comments with heart-eye emojis and compliments.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 18 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • But now, with the 992.2 revision that debuted earlier this year, the new Cup will now be upgraded to reflect changes to its exterior.
    Peter Nelson, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The Brewers had a great manager in Craig Counsell, now with the Cubs.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Forthwith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forthwith. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.

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